US52420A - Caster for furniture - Google Patents

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T. M. KANE & 0. BROWN. (EASTER/FOR FURNITURE.

I Patented Feb/6, 1866.

part of this specifieation.

Figure 1 represents a bedstead-foot with thelarger-sized caster; Fig. .3, the one half of the cylinder, showing the outside and aperture UNrTED STATES ATENT FFI'CEQ 'raos. M. KANE AND CONRAD BROWN, OF GOSHEN, NE YORK.

GASTER FOR FURNITURE,

Specifieation'forming part of Letters Patent No- 52A 20, dated February 6, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAs M. KANE and CONRAD BRO WN, both of Goshen, county of we do hereby declare the following to be an exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and-'to the letters of reference marked thereo jnqniaking a with the end of spring. Fig. 3 shows the other half of cylinder, the inside, with the spring and aperture.

the one half of cylinder, the inside, with the aperture and spring; Fig. 7, the other ha'lfof cylinder, the outside, with the aperture and spring. I

The nature of my invention consists in the shape and construction of the cylinder, cast in halves, with curved flat springs riveted in the inside, and apertures that the top ends of the springs play in. These cylinders or thimbles Fig. 4 shows the shape of the spring. Fig. 5 shows the foot of a table or I chair, with the smaller-sized caster; Fig.

half containing, an upright curved spring, 0,

that adjusts itself to and presses against the neck D of the -stem E of the caster G. A hole is bored into the, foot of the piece of furniture, and the' i-cylinder or thimble is driven into the hole tightly. The stem E of the caster is then inserted, and the spring 0 holds it permanently,

' What we claim as our invention, and desire jto secure by Letters Patent, is-

The construction of the divided cylinder B, with springs 0, when constructed, arranged, and combined as herein described, and for the purposes set forth.

THOMAS M. KANE. CONRAD BROWN.

Witnesses:

J. FRANKLIN REIGART, DANIEL REIGART.

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